PS Plus vs. Xbox Games With Gold: Which Free Games Are Better (December 2018)?
Who Wins?
It would have been nice for the year to end with a bang, but we can’t honestly say that either of these lineups has us hugely excited. That being said, there have been so many stellar months from both services in 2018 that we can hardly complain.
We’re picking PS Plus this month, simply because SOMA is a superb title that we consider a must-play. In fact, we scored it an exemplary 5/5 in our review back in 2016. It’s a standout title that hits the mark with its thought-provoking narrative and eerie dystopian locale.
Onrush, too, is a title that deserves a lot of credit for pioneering some innovation in a genre that’s as old as the hills. This is an arcadey vehicle combat game that stands next to games like Rocket League for adding layers of interesting new gameplay mechanics on top of a familiar blueprint while adding the sort competitive online play and progression systems that keep players coming back for more.
Games with Gold’s two headline titles are entertaining enough but don’t quite represent substantial enough experiences to topple PS Plus this time around.
Elsewhere, it’s nice to see backward compatibility adding strings to the bow of the service — especially the return of original Xbox titles like Mercenaries. The less said about Dragon Age 2 the better…
